Survey of Research Problems on High Speed Aerodynamics and other Scientific Work intelligence report for sale

** One of the individually-numbered reports issued solely to members of the Western Allies intelligence community with appropriate security clearance. Suppressed and withdrawn from further circulation for security reasons.

WW2 CONFIDENTIAL intelligence report Copy No 114: Survey of Research Problems on High Speed Aerodynamics and other Scientific Work.

Very good in original stapled card wrappers. Protected in a modern clear archival jacket.

Bernhard H. Goethert, a German aeronautics scientist during WW2, later became chief scientist for the US Air Force Systems Command near Washington.

During WW2, Goethert was a department chief of high-speed aeronautics at the German Research Institute for Aeronautics in Berlin, involved in the development of the Messerschmitt-262 German jet fighter of the 1940s.

Following on this, in the United States he worked on the American F-111 fighter with movable swept-back wings and the Saturn moon rocket.

In 1964, Goethert became chief scientist of the Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base. There, he had primary responsibility for technical and scientific justification for the Air Force's research and development.